Inspirational Quotes on Youth

“Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!”

“I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.”

“Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.”

“There is a crowd of busybodies, self-appointed masters of ceremonies, whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,” or “overcoming their apathy.” If an Augustine, a Vaughan, a Traherne, or a Wordsworth should be born in the modern world, the leaders of a youth organization would soon cure him.”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

“Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.”

“Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.”

“History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.”

“Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.”

“Christian Youth, I need to ask why you sit in the padded pews of your fathers while all around the darkness takes your cities and your friends.”

“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”

“Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.”

“Youth is the time when all seems to be within the grasp of the careful student. I have left that time behind. "I don't know" is on my lips more often now. But so also is "God knows!" - not as a thoughtless expression in conversation, but as the conviction of my heart.”

“He left Bristol feeling, as he would have said, a different man. Indeed he was a different man. From now onwards till the moment of final decision should meet him, the different men in him appeared with startling rapidity and each seemed very complete while it lasted. Thus, skidding violently from one side to the other, his youth approached the moment at which he would begin to be a person.”

“You, my dear Rodion Romanovich (excuse an old man), are still a young man, in your first youth, so to speak, and therefore you esteem the human intellect above all things, like all young people. Abstract reasoning and the play of wit tempt you astray.”

“It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored.”